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Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- History -- 20th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Lc Locally Created
Scope Note: Previous term: Twentieth Century Avant-Garde Art

Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

Neil Baldwin Man Ray Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MsC1276
Scope and Contents The Neil Baldwin Man Ray Collection contains photographs, research notes, and correspondence pertaining to Dr. Neil Baldwin’s biography (Man Ray: American Artist) and documentary (Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde) of the artist. This collection is made up of seven series: photographs; critiques, features, reviews; Man Ray biography; Naomi Siegler Savage; interviews; and Man Ray documentary. The series and folders indicate Baldwin’s original organization. As a result, some folders, particularly those within the PHOTOGRAPHS series, contain duplicate materials.The first series includes photographs by Man Ray and other. Photographs includes images of Man Ray, pictures that Man Ray took, pictures of Man Ray’s art objects, reproductions of his drawings and paintings, as well as photographs from Neil Baldwin’s trips to Paris in 1984 and 1986. Of note, the folder “Man Ray and his works, c. 1916-1952” includes pictures of...
Dates: 1920-2002

R. Keith Courtney Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0761
Abstract

Iowa City resident and artist. From the late 1970s to the late 1980s Courtney conducted a project titled Notes From All Over, which invited artists to send him found objects and printed matter. The collection consists of art works, correspondence, and related documentation dating from 1971-1995.

Dates: 1971-1995

Stephen Foster Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC1163
Abstract

Professional papers of Stephen C. Foster, founder and director of Stephen Foster Fine Arts and professor of Art and Art History at the University of Iowa. Materials in this collection include correspondence, exhibition materials, publications, teaching materials, ephemera, and audiovisual materials spanning the length of his career from 1972-2018.

Dates: 1972-2018

William Gaglione Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0866
Abstract

Personal papers and art work of the stamp and mail artist. An ATCA collection.

Dates: -

Zagreb Folios: Yugoslavian Artists' Work

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0765
Abstract

Half a linear foot of original art works by Yugoslavian artists and a scholarly paper that discusses several of these works.

Dates: 1974-1997